Improvement in cotton-cultivators



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

JOHN RNKING, OFRALEIGH, TENNESSEE.

IMPROVEMENT IN CO'TTON-CULTIVATORS.`

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 26,597, dated December 27, 1859.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that l, JOHN R. KING, of Raleigh, in the county of Shelby, in the State of Tennessee, have made a new and useful Inlproveinent on Gast-Iron Plows, with a wrough tiron cotton-scraper attached to the same, for the cultivation of land, Src. g and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and tothe figures and letters of reference marked thereon,

making a part of this specification.

, lling into atlange, (represented in k, Fig. 4.)

a n are sloping tenons to tit mortises b and c. This landside is held firmly in position hy being covered at dby flange of point K, Fig. 4, and by the tenons n a, fitting the mortises b c.`

Fig.,I) shows the frame and incid-board cast solid together.

(Shown in Figs. 2

a a, Figs.B and C, represent two braces c011- i, necting the framep q b c to the mold-board m` one near the bottom and the other near the top ot' the wing.

Fig. 4 represents theptwo sides of the point.` Y

of plow, intended to cover e of mold-board m, also ttin g the shoulder of landside shown in Fig. 3.

Fig. E is a front view of the scraper-blade,`

made ot wrought-iron. i

Fig. F represents the reverse side of scraper,

with the cast-iron flange 8, intended to fit the flange ot' the plow, (represented by e, Fig. D,)`

similar tothe manner described for K, to which it is attached by two rivets.

I am aware that attaching diierent wings or mold-boards with screw-bolts to the frame, stays, points, landside, and cotton-scraper are t in themselves no new devices. 'lhcse I do not` claim asnew or ot' my invention.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The arrangement ot' the frame p g b e and wing or mold board n, (cast solid together,) y

extra landside S, with its tenons dan, and

brace a with the cotton-sera per g, as described, i

for purposes specified. i

JOHN RKING.

Witnesses:

R. S. FIEE, JOHN F. FULLER. 

